Lockdown - has it totally failed?

[Stere]

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How is it London has seen a 17% infection rate with full lockdown whereas Stockholm has had less than half of that with minimal restrictions? 

Probably as more covidiots in the UK.

 

Coronavirus conspiracy theories: More than a fifth of people believe the virus is a hoax

WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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Almost three fifths of adults in England believe to some extent that the Government is misleading the public about the...

 

People who attack 5G masks and ignore social distancing as beleive covid is a hoax.

 

 

 

Sweden has no official lockdown policy but less % idiots = less transmission of virus as people reduce contact by choice having common sense.

 

Also  lockdown was delayed until it had already spread all over UK loads of air travel  from all over the globe (more than Sweden) limiting its effectiveness.

 

Overcrowding in sub standard housing/flats may also be a factor, and poorer health  & more obesity.

 

Higher virus death rate in poorer areas - ONS

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Analysis shows people living in more deprived areas are more likely to die with Covid-19.

 

 

 

 

 

[trigger_andy]

49 minutes ago, Stere said:

Sweden has no official lockdown policy but less % idiots = less transmission of virus as people reduce contact by choice having common sense.

Define idiots.

 

You're claiming its idiots who are not social distancing yet you've just described the majority of Sweden. Lumping the minute number of weirdo's who think 5g causes C-19 along with those who dont social distance is simply stupid. 

 

Sweden also has a vast immigrant population/problem, these people generally dont care about Social Distancing, in Sweden or their home countries. Their ghettos are over populated and sub-standard as well. 

 

 

Below is some pictures of Swedes going about their life during Corona Times. You've been conditioned to call people who do this in the UK 'covidiots' by the media. Yet for some reason when Sweden does the same on a national scale they are not idiots? 

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3 hours ago, Khriss said:

Yr not going in my barn Mr Stubby !! Full, but not with bog roll... Endless machinery n crap of all description.  K

wouldnt mind a wee rake,lol.

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2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Define idiots.

 

You're claiming its idiots who are not social distancing yet you've just described the majority of Sweden. Lumping the minute number of weirdo's who think 5g causes C-19 along with those who dont social distance is simply stupid. 

 

Sweden also has a vast immigrant population/problem, these people generally dont care about Social Distancing, in Sweden or their home countries. Their ghettos are over populated and sub-standard as well. 

 

 

Below is some pictures of Swedes going about their life during Corona Times. You've been conditioned to call people who do this in the UK 'covidiots' by the media. Yet for some reason when Sweden does the same on a national scale they are not idiots? 

Precisely - knocked it out of the park, Andy! If Covidiot is really a thing, then I'm one, and 95% of people I know, work with and strangers I meet are as well.

 

 

[Johnsond]

5 hours ago, Mark J said:

 

A canny piece by a seemingly decent politician:

 

Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor

 

· Yesterday ·

 

 

 

Getting dressed after the shower, Leon sidles up to me, "Daddy my cwayon has bwoke." The boys were three and one at the time.

"Oh dear, how’d you do that, son?"

"It bwoke on the wall."

A dash downstairs found Nelson in full Neolithic cave-art mode. Navy blue Crayloa on magnolia emulsion. Celtic swirls decorating the wall on the stairs.

Crayons confiscated, boys sternly told of the seriousness of their actions. Then a courtroom drama in which Nelson introduces the plot twist, “No! I not naughty, you naughty!”

That was ten years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Toddlers are cute. Nature has programmed us to think so.

Dominic Cummings is not a toddler. Neither are cabinet ministers. They have the power to fine you if you break the lockdown. They can decide to charge you for using the NHS. They also have the codes to Britain’s nuclear arsenal. They are millionaires.

The scandal isn’t that a career psychopath broke the rules (David Cameron’s description of Cummings). The scandal is that the entire cabinet is being wheeled out to defend him. Every other public official caught breaking the law had to resign for potentially spreading a fatal disease.

Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Leader of the House Jacob Rees Mogg, and Foreign Sec and deputy PM Dominic Raab among them. All following the no 10 script.

In two hours they all used the words "care" and "child" in their tweets. Almost as if a single press officer had written them. (Then dutifully retweeted by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.)

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's was the most toddleresque - accusing people of "trying to score political points" - I not naughty, you naughty!

It’s total bull, of course. Cummings doesn’t think rules apply to him. He thinks everyone else is too stupid to have an opinion. He says so in his blog. Worse still, their story isn't straight. Eye witnesses and the police have disproven them. Toddler excuses and toddler lies.

The science of psychology has proven that toddlers have no 'theory of mind'. Simply, they are not capable of realising that we might have different beliefs and opinions from them. We forgive toddlers because we know they will grow up.

With the Cabinet, we all knew they were lying. They knew they were lying. Why did they think they could get away with it? We've seen a catalogue of errors and lies about the handling of this crisis. When we look at the catalogue of failures we can see why. The worst death rate in Europe. Bungled PPE deliveries. Testing regimes not in place. Deciding to quarantine air passengers eight weeks after imposing a lockdown. We been misled on PPE. On testing. On statistics. On what the science said. So why stop there? In for a penny, in for a pound. After all, it worked when they deceived the Queen on proroguing Parliament.

They no longer tell you what’s true. They tell you what’s plausible. Most people think propaganda is about spin & exaggeration. It often was. But emboldened by Trump, some realised that a complete fiction was more effective. Sure, some serious people would never believe you again. But they’d never vote for you anyway.

Hannah Arendt, philosopher who escaped from Nazi Germany, wrote, "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exist.”

Far better to make it a slanging match. To destroy truth altogether. When people start thinking everybody lies, they’ll go along with the loudest voice or the funniest clown.

There’s a platitude in politics that we’re all trying to do good, just we have different views of how to get there. It's not really true - there are many different visions of the world we want to see. Grown-up politicians are comfortable debating it, based on evidence and values.

Not all the Tories are toddlers. I deal with some who, in a private conversation, will admit things are not going as planned. It’s much less adversarial than you might think. Being in government is hard work. I approach these meetings trying to find solutions, and they’re glad of a break from conflict. There’s not many of them left, mind. Most of the dissenting voices were sacked in BJ’s temper tantrum last August.

I'm writing this on Sunday morning. By the time it's published, Cummings may have been axed. There’s normally no hesitation in throwing an advisor or two under the bus to save a PM or minister’s hide. So either DC has some serious dirt on BJ’s inner circle, or they’re terrified that one admission of failure will lead to a torrent.

Here’s a challenge to any of our North East Conservative politicians. Show us you’re grown-ups. Tell the truth. Call out your cabinet ministers who lied and wriggled to defend Cummings. Ask for a public apology. Show us there's an alternative to government by toddler.

Published in the Journal and Evening Chronicle 25.5.20

 

 

 

 

Easy Mark 

I get the impression you probs made a mess of your favourite red underpants the state of excitement you got into reading then posting that one ??

[Mark J]

[Big J]

I liked one I saw on Facebook earlier:

" if you have to drive 260 miles to find someone who is prepared to help you in an emergency, you need to consider the possibility that you're a bit of a c*nt"

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, Big J said:

I liked one I saw on Facebook earlier:

" if you have to drive 260 miles to find someone who is prepared to help you in an emergency, you need to consider the possibility that you're a bit of a c*nt"

Would you leave you children for extended periods of time with anyone other than family?  Pedo's are never the ones you expect are they? 

 

 

[Big J]

Just now, trigger_andy said:

Would you leave you children for extended periods of time with anyone other than family?  Pedo's are never the ones you expect are they? 

 

 

That's one way of looking at it, I suppose. 

 

Regardless of the personal circumstances, his position is untenable. He may have been able to justify his actions to himself, but it's contrary to the deeply restrictive guidelines that he was (we can presume) an architect of. As I said earlier, do as I say, not as I do just doesn't cut it in modern politics.

[Mark J]

2 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Would you leave you children for extended periods of time with anyone other than family?  Pedo's are never the ones you expect are they? 

 

 

If you were worried about your eyesight and ability to drive, would you put your wife and kid in the car when you took it for a spin to find out?